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During the years when my daughter was attending Pepperdine University in Malibu, it was the perfect excuse to make numerous California trips.  We’d visit her for a while, then extend the trip to places all over the western states.  One of my favorite spots was Crescent City at the extreme northern point on the California… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Extreme Makeover

Fresh from the euphoria of writing a novel, Emperor Dad, just for fun, I decided to do it again.  So I had to pull an idea out of my hat — any idea. Aliens!  That’s always a good science fiction idea.  Better yet, since this was just for fun, rather than a serious deep science… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Roswell or Bust

It was shortly after I took a severance buyout package from Motorola that I had a little more time to write than before.  I had written other novels, but the number of New York publishers that would even look at an un-agented novel was shrinking rapidly.  I remember the decision to write a novel just… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Emperor Dad